No injuries were reported, and the driver and his passengers were released from the scene and driven away on another bus, according to a New Jersey State Police report.

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Photos taken form the Baldwin Road overpass, facing west, show the scene of a school bus fire on eastbound Route 80 in Parsippany on June 8, 2017.(Photo: William Westhoven/Staff Photo)

State police responded at 9:15 a.m. to the scene on the shoulder of the local eastbound lanes of Route 80, east of Exit 43 (Route 287) and just west of the Baldwin Road overpass. The initial response closed the right local lane and the nearby crossover ramp from the express to local eastbound lanes.

Photos of the fire, appearing on social media, showed a large plume of smoke as the bus burned. Most of the damage was seen in the front of the bus, where the engine hood and front side panels appeared to have sustained fire damage. The outside charring also extended to the first four rows of seat windows.

Trooper Lawrence Peele could not immediately identify the origin of the bus or where it was going. Representatives of the Parsippany, Randolph, Morris and Morris Hills school districts said the bus did not belong to them.

The address listed on the bus registration was a P.O. box in Morristown, Peele said.

Par-Troy EMS also was dispatched to the scene, according to the Parsippany Police Department.